5 minutes with Robert Winston

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Professor Lord Robert Winston, 71, is Professor of Science and Society at
Imperial College London. As a scientist, he pioneered preimplantation
genetic diagnosis of human embryos for IVF. He has presented numerous
programmes on medicine and has described Richard Dawkins’s attitude to
religion as “insulting” and “patronising”.

You once said that you were not a particularly gifted student. Really?

I certainly wasn’t an assiduous student. I didn’t do particularly well; but
then I was pretty idle. I think I got the lowest mark ever recorded in
biochemistry.